[meteorite-list] Opinions? Ideas?

From: Marc Fries <m.fries_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Dec 7 20:27:51 2004
Message-ID: <1230.69.140.92.248.1102469266.squirrel_at_webmail.ciw.edu>

p.s. The speed of sound at sea level is 340 m/s. This object would be
moving at Mach 59. Someone call NASA. Better yet, call the Air Force and
laugh condescendingly.

Again - bug = cult hero.

Cheers,
MDF

> Two problems: 1) there is no smear in the frames before and after this
> one, and 2) look at the distance involved here - if the bright flash is an
> exploding lamp, it would have created a fireball several meters in
> diameter. Not bloody likely, and there's no evidence of such a blast in
> the next frame. Also, APOD says there was no apparent damage to the lamp
> post.
>
> Plus - if we say that the "blast" is 1km away, and estimate the distance
> the object traveled as about 1km in the frame... If the picture was
> exposed in 50 ms (I also saw 20ms, which doesn't help any!), that means
> the object would have to be moving at 20,000 m/s to cover the distance we
> see here. Again - not bloody likely.
>
> Count me in the "it's a bug caught by the flash" camp. The online
> discussion looks like fun - there are folks in there with every
> explanation from "hoax" to "wrinkle in the space-time continuum". If this
> bug knew about all this hubbub, he/she would definately be a cult hero in
> the insect world.
>
> Cheers,
> MDF
>
>> When enlarged, it appears that the lamp on the pole has blown up. The
>> dark
>> trail leading to it may be a spear on the lens as it did not change like
>> the
>> image did (pixelation).
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Meteoryt.net" <marcin_at_meteoryt.net>
>> To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 5:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Opinions? Ideas?
>>
>>
>>> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041207.html
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>>> Why "they" think that this can't be a meteorite (bolide) ???????
>>> For me its a foto of new observed fall of a single meteorite.
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